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WHO CAN APPLY
Bay Area girls entering the 6th through 9th grade
DESCRIPTION
Do you want to learn how to rock climb, improve your climbing technique, and build leadership skills? Here’s your chance! Girlz Climb On is an after-school program that pairs you with an adult female mentor. You will climb, laugh and learn together once a week, for 10 weeks, in an indoor climbing gym in either Oakland, San Francisco, or the Peninsula.
Each week we focus on developing technical climbing skills, everything from tying a figure-8 follow-thru knot to belaying to techniques like smearing and edging. If you don’t know what these terms are, don’t worry… you’ll learn!
We also focus on issues that connect rock climbing with a strength you may already have or would like to improve on, like building relationships with friends, trust, leadership, self-expression, working as a group, communication, or resolving conflicts.
We begin with a one-day outdoor ropes course at Fort Miley and end with a weekend outing to a local state park, where you will have a chance to show off your new skills on real rock!
DATES & LOCATION
Spring 2012 Dates – Our Spring programs are NOW FULL. Please see below for our Fall 2012 dates.
Oakland – Great Western Power Company
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Wednesdays: 4:30 pm – 7:15 pm (Mentors meet at 4:00 pm)
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February 1 – April 11 (10 weeks, no program April 4)
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Saturday, January 28 - Ropes Course Orientation Day, 8 am – 5 pm (pick up/drop off @ MacArthur BART)
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Sunday, March 25 – Outdoor Climb @ Castle Rock State Park, 8 am – 6 pm (pick up/drop off @ MacArthur BART)
San Francisco – Mission Cliffs
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Mondays: 4:30 pm – 7:15 pm (Mentors meet at 4:00 pm)
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January 30 – April 9 (10 weeks, no program March 26)
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Saturday, January 28 - Ropes Course Orientation Day, 9 am – 4 pm (pick up/drop off @ Fort Miley)
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Saturday, April 7 – Outdoor Climb @ Castle Rock State Park, 8 am – 6 pm (pick up/drop off @ Bryant St. Sports Basement)
Fall 2012 Dates
Oakland – Great Western Power Company
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Wednesdays: 4:30 pm – 7:15 pm (Mentors meet at 4:00 pm)
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October 3 – December 12 (10 weeks, no program November 21)
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Saturday, September 29 - Ropes Course Orientation Day, 8 am – 5 pm (pick up/drop off @ MacArthur BART)
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Sunday, November 4 – Outdoor Climb @ Castle Rock State Park, 8 am – 6 pm (pick up/drop off @ MacArthur BART)
San Francisco – Mission Cliffs
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Mondays: 4:30 pm – 7:15 pm (Mentors meet at 4:00 pm)
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October 1 – December 10 (10 weeks, no program October 8 )
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Saturday, September 29 - Ropes Course Orientation Day, 9 am – 4 pm (pick up/drop off @ Fort Miley)
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Saturday, November 3 – Outdoor Climb @ Castle Rock State Park, 8 am – 6 pm (pick up/drop off @ Bryant Street Sports Basement)
COST
$550
Payment Policies & Financial Aid
To ensure that ALL girls have the opportunity to participate in our programs, we award financial aid to two-thirds of all participants.
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